Though brief and often little-regarded, the albums that followed the Beach Boys' early hits are in fact perhaps their best, capturing the drama and poetry of the everyday.

The combination of domestic goodness with real enchantment make The Little White Horse a true reflection of the reality that the goodness and beauty of the world is found not when we squint but when we see most clearly.

Though on the surface confusing and fragmented, William Langland's poem expose in both theme and form the struggles that Christians confronted in his own time--and still do in our own.